“It’s like Chekhov’s glass bauble,” jokes director Rian Johnson of the inevitable breakage.
Call it a happy accident.
Soon, the other guests join her in the shattering melee until every last piece has been destroyed.
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But filming one of those moments didn’t go exactly as planned.
“It’s a massive wheel of glass.
We only have one of these.
She drops it and then looks right into the camera and does this [makes a shocked face].
We had started the camera just to practice the thing.
She broke it and then looked right in the camera.
That’s the take that’s in the movie.”
Henwick, however, doesn’t find the memory quite as amusing.
“I broke into a cold sweat,” she says.
“I still have nightmares about that moment.”
“I’m going to break that one.”
“I had so much fun that day,” she says.
“I pulled from all of my favorite characters like Riddler and the Joker.
There’s the big, big moment.
How do you lead up to that?
How do you keep the audience engaged as you’re breaking all these things?”
Though it turns out that Henwick filched said strawberry for herself when production ended.
“I have a sugar glass strawberry at home,” she confesses to Johnson.
“I wrapped it in bubble wrap, and I carried it in my bag onto the plane.”
